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Welcome to the homepage for the PHILOSOPHY meets POPULAR CULTURE initiative
The PHILOSOPHY meets POPULAR CULTURE initiative seeks to promote serious discussion and investigation of popular culture in light of philosophy - and philosophy in light of popular culture.
This site, launched on October 7, 2008 and continually updated, is envisioned as a facilitator for this enterprise. The initiative has Danish origins, but this homepage and its associated functionalities are open to anyone who wishes to engage seriously with the topic. The language of the site is thus English.
Please take some time to explore the functionalities provided by tabbing through the menu bar. You will find invitations to submit material to the site (please see "Docs and Pics") and to participate in its Facebook page. (If you do not come directly to our Facebook page, please do a search for "Philosophy Meets Popular Culture.")
THIS WEEK: AUGUST 30 - SEPTEMBER 5, 2010
NEWS
For details regarding events, please see the Calendar on the Events page
For archived News postings before 2010, please see here.
April 2010
New Book: Designing New Media: Learning, Communication and Innovation
Cynthia M. Grund and Jesper Pilegaard have a chapter in this book, which has just been released in April, 2010: Grund, C. M., & Pilegaard, J. "The Real, the Virtual. . . and the Practical." i Philipsen, H., Agerbæk, L., Kampmann Walter, B., & Strange, B. (red.). Designing New Media: Learning, Communication and Innovation Copenhagen: Academica. The book is entirely in English and may be bought at http://www.gyldendal-akademisk.dk/Books/9788776757489.aspx; it may be perused in its entirely at http://flipper.gyldendal.dk/9788776757489
RECENT NEWS:
March 2010
Thanks to all who helped to make the Nordplus Master's Course on MUSIC, MEANING and GESTURE March 22-26, 2010 at IFPR- SDU-Odense a success. A summary report together with photographs will soon be available at www.nnimipa.org.
Thanks to all who participated in Philosophy meets Popular Culture and Aesthetics at the annual meeting of the DPA March 5-6, 2010:Cynthia M. Grund chaired a session on Philosophy meets Popular Culture and Aesthetics for the annual meeting of The Danish Philosophical Association March 5-6 (see http://www.dpu.dk/site.aspx?p=13614).
February 15, 2010: Televised documentary "Music and Meaning: Duets and Dialogues" with WILLIAM WESTNEY and CYNTHIA M. GRUND.
During the week of February 15-February 22, 2010, ALT-Aabenraa Lokal TV will be airing "Music and Meaning: Duets and Dialogues" with H.C. Andersen Guest Professor William Westney and Cynthia M. Grund, Research Director for The Aesthetics of Music and Sound (AMS). To view the documentary on ALTV's homepage, please click here. This program includes interviews with Westney and Grund, gives an overview of the activities of AMS, tells the story behind William Westney's connection with the Institute of Philosophy, Education and the Study of Religions at The University of Southern Denmark (SDU), and includes clips from the conference held at SDU-Odense on November 6, 2009: Art and/or Entertainment? The Fifth Anniversary Conference on Philosophy and Popular Culture.
January 5, 2010: Televised concert with WILLIAM WESTNEY.
The Philosophy meets Popular Culture Initative wishes everyone a very Happy New Year and is pleased to bring you a New Year's concert. ALT-Aabenraa Lokal TV has broadcast a concert with H.C. Andersen Guest Professor William Westney recorded on November 24, 2009 at Alsion, Sønderborg. To view the program as a pdf-file, please click here. To see and hear the concert, please click here. The broadcast is of the concert in its entirety and divided into two parts. The first part contains music by Haydn, Fauré, Liszt, Harburg/Arlen, and Arlen as well as the first piece by Gershwin. The second part contains the Gershwin/Wild Fantasy on Porgy and Bess and the Burgmüller encore.
Harburg/Arlen, Arlen, the first piece by Gershwin, and the Gershwin/Wild Fantasy on Porgy and Bess are very relevant for those pondering the distinction Art &/or Entertainment, the theme of our November 6, 2009 conference at SDU in Odense.
News Archive for postings before 2010, please see here. .
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